New York trip

At the end of January I got the chance to travel to New York with my university course for a week of "educational stuff" and shopping. 

This entry is in no chronological order because I kind of forgot when I took the photographs.

I'm a bit bummed that I didn't take that many photos. I find that the busier I am, the less I'm likely to take photos but I took a few and tried to jazz them up and make them look pretty for yall.

Firstly when we got off the plane, we all froze because it was snowing like a crazy and us being from England, we do not know how to dress appropriately for any weather conditions, plus we were fashion students so appearance>dying from hypothermia.

This picture was from the first day I was there. My friends insisted I had a photo of myself looking all fancy down Broadway(..?) and I reluctantly agreed. You have no idea how much will-power it took me to not make a hideous face. 

Unkempt hair/crazy boobs/herpderp face CHECK

The main point of the trip was for us to explore several fashion related businesses to get an idea of what they do and in hope of giving us an insight  asto how broad the fashion industry actually is so for two days of our trip, we spent being given tours adn talks around companies like Ralph Lauren, Anthropologie, the Armani exchange head office as well as a few others.

One of my favourite things about NY was the size of the food portions. As a girl who spends 80% of her life trying to satisfy good cravings, this suited me very nicely. Every day I had pancakes dripping in maple syrup, eggs and bacon for breakfast. Eating maple syrup on eggs and bacon was a very novel experience for me.

The waiters here loved us. 

Another thing I loved was the shopping because everything is cheap compared to England, not that I could do much shopping because I spent all my money in Japan. I didn however have enough for these Jeffrey Campbells beauties. $80 reduced from $200. Can you believe that?

These babies kept me alive at a Skrillex gig, though a few spikes has to be sacrificed to do so ):

My favourite place to go shopping was Soho. In fact all SoHos are awesome. I wish I actually took some pictures of it. I was really excited about checking a store called Seven but it was closed! We did however find LF Stores which was pretty magical and full of good things.

We also found this cat in one of the shops. I have no idea what the shop was called but we only went in because we saw him.

He had a security tag round his neck so when he walked out of the shop, the staff would know. Aww <3

Some photos of other things we got up to!

Late afternoon view from the Empire State Building.

Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park

The ground zero memorial site

We were surprised to see a Topshop! Ah English pride.

There were a few of things that I thought were particularly different to what we would experience if we were back home in the UK.

1) We were constantly complimented on our accents which I thought was really weird., but cool. I didn't

understand what people thought was so interesting about the way we spoke.

2) People were really friendly. I don't know whether its because we were English but wherever we were, people would talk to us; shop staff, people on trains, people in the street. We ended up befriending half a train at one point. 

3) Our clothing caused a lot of stares. The way we dressed is nothing really out of the ordinary by UK standards and nobody would bat an eyelid but for some reason, we were being stared at like we were unicorns or something. I was also told about 5 times a day how cool my hair was. -ego swell-

I absolutely loved New York. It gave me the chance to bond more with the girls on my course, as well as escape my lectures for a week. I've always wanted to go to North America and New York did not disappoint. I really wish I could have stayed longer (and had more spending money)

I WILL GO BACK.

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